Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Code smells

once in a while, you investigate and find something more. The bad smell is merely a symptom of a larger issue that was otherwise unnoticeable… or, at least, unnoticed. By investigating the smell, you’ve prevented a much bigger issue from shipping

I liked the way the author took the "bad smells" metaphor and worked with it to provide some nice rules of thumb for how to refine your instincts so that you have a better sense of when to dig deeper, and when it would be more efficient to just move along.